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This World Health Organization guideline focuses on improving postnatal care for mothers and newborns to enhance maternal and neonatal health outcomes. It emphasizes the critical period immediately after birth, extending up to six weeks, where maternal and neonatal mortality rates remain high. The guideline aims to enhance the quality of postnatal care, ensuring a positive experience for women, families, and caregivers by providing consistent information, reassurance, and support from motivated healthcare professionals. It includes 63 recommendations, drawn from new and existing WHO guidelines, targeting healthcare policy makers, program managers, and healthcare providers. The recommendations cover maternal and neonatal care and health system interventions, emphasizing the importance of quality care and the need for respectful, person-centered care. Implementation involves adapting the guidelines to various country contexts and ensuring effective communication and referral systems. Monitoring and evaluation will be conducted at subnational and national levels to assess the impact and guide future updates.

Postnatal care. --- Maternal health services.